Making Better Business Decisions: Understanding and Improving Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills / Edition 1

by Steve W. Williams

Overview

If you're serious about making better decisions in your business and your life, read this book and discover the hidden psychological, biological and physiological factors influencing the decisions you make.

Expert author Steve Williams shows how an awareness of these influences can improve the quality of the decision-making process and increase creativity and innovation.

Insightful and easy to read, "Making Better Business Decisions" will help you:

• Analyze options more clearly and creatively
• Reduce decision time
• Recognize and focus on priority decisions
• Understand why and how others make the decisions they do

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761924227
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/20/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Making Better Business Decisions
I. INTERNAL INFLUENCES ON DECISION MAKING
2. Biological Factors Influencing Decisions
3. Why We Don't Decide as We Should: The Influence of Want
4. Judgmental Biases Influencing Decisions
5. Perceptions of Risk and Decision Making
II. UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
6. Thinking Critically: How We Know What We Know
III. UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING CREATIVITY
7. Thinking Creatively
8. Improving Our Decisions
References
About the Author